My Nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2011 – #eddies11

I still remember how much I enjoyed being nominated for some of the awards as a new blogger and tweeter in 2009 and how much this encouraged me to keep blogging and to try to keep getting better.

Some people may still think these nominations have no value – well, they do; it’s our colleagues giving us a little bit of praise and encouragement to keep sharing and pursuing learning through blogging.

So, I will keep up with this good tradition and here are my nominations for 2011

This is a very difficult decision as the Twitter scene seems to change every single day of the week. For sheer consistency and a steady sharing of great ideas, I nominate @NikPeachey as a tweeter of the highest quality – his tweets never fail to lead to information sources or blog posts of great value to all ELT teachers

Best group blog

This has to be www.eltchat.com It is a blog maintained by the #ELTchat moderators but the wealth of posts it includes have all been written by willing bloggers who follow #ELTchats and write some awesome summaries.

Best edtech / resource sharing blog

There are many established blogs, most of them by Nik Peachey (!!!) but this is the year for nominatingOzge Karaoglu for her great A-Z series and for always sharing great edtech resources.

Welcoming back Tamas Lorincz and his Journey into Learning, a blogger who has been away and come back with a great new blog. His posts are always honest, reflective and come straight from the heart of a great educator.

For me, this has to be pbworks– I use this free wiki web tool with every course I run and it’s fantasticand easy for all students and trainee teachers to use – still freely available to every educator.

Reform Symposium for offering a forum and a chance to present to so many teachers from all over the world.

Best educational use of a social network

My English Clubis an inclredible website that draws hundreds of learners from around the world, all inspired by the work of Tara Benwell.

Lifetime Achievement

Nik Peachey – he is one of the most giving/sharing edtech experts/bloggers and his posts, talks and writings have engaged and stimulated a huge number of teachers towards thinking and learning about ICT and including educational technology in their teaching and teacher training.

Thanks, Marisa. I really am committed to doing a lot better job of my blogging this time around. What an amazing company to be in – love your other nominees, fantastic people doing truly great stuff. Thanks again and I hope to deserve the love and support I get from you.